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Work the litigation matter

Chapter 3 of 5 · Section 8 of 18

Sections

1. Why do this

  • 1. Learning objectives
  • 2. The running matter

2. Develop locally

  • 3. Start the local room
  • 4. Sign in

3. Work the litigation matter

  • 5. The four nouns in one workflow
  • 6. One onboarding, one offboarding
  • 7. Walk the retainer intake one question at a time
  • 8. The other notations on a matter
  • 9. Inspect the client portal
  • 10. Make a sample-project change

4. Open a real Project

  • 11. Fill the matter-open form
  • 12. Provision the repository and Drive folder — a separate step today
  • 13. Populate the repository
  • 14. Stage a document and sync it
  • 15. Pull a fresh checkout's documents
  • 16. The portal is a separate, later decision
  • 17. Verify

5. Wrap Up

  • 18. Verify the room

The other notations on a matter

After the engagement is on file, the matter accumulates the work itself. Those later notations are not unique. A litigation matter may carry many letters and filings. An estate matter may carry a will, a trust, and directives. A review matter may carry a memo.

The vocabulary is one closed enum, Kind, in rules/src/kind.rs. A template declares kind: in its frontmatter. Generated PDFs and lawyer uploads reuse the same strings on the asset lane. The notation kinds you add after onboarding:

  • letter — a letter the firm sends on the client's behalf (demand, notice, settlement)
  • filing — a document filed with a government body
  • will, trust, directive — estate instruments
  • agreement — a private agreement with a third party
  • pleading — court paper filed with a court (complaint, motion, brief)
  • memo — an analytical work product, not an executed instrument

Filed uploads that are not templates use transcript, inbound_contract, certificate_of_naturalization, or unclassified. Content pages (post, workshop, event) and matter dashboards are not notations on the Project.

Presenter notes

Walk the list against this litigation matter. The retainer is onboarding. A later demand letter is letter and may be one of several. Do not treat letter as offboarding.

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